Problem-Solving Contracts in London

Problem Solving
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 19 23
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +12
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,777 2,075 2,949
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.17% 7.98% 7.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.48% 8.78% 8.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,143 1,341 1,901
10th Percentile £292 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £512 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.41% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 45 45
10th Percentile £16.33 £14.67 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £20.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £29.34 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.65% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £49.88 £60.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £71.00 £63.75
England median hourly rate £17.00 £50.00 £23.85
% change year-on-year -66.00% +109.67% +27.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,484 23,644 35,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.60% 90.88% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,107 17,068 26,253
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 267 420
10th Percentile £15.81 £18.30 £17.24
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.45 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £37.34 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -25.23% +2.55% +13.78%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.88 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.83 £82.50 £67.56
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in London.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in London.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the London region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +11 271 £550 -2.22% 147
West London +13 40 £463 -18.14% 77
South London +18 31 £425 -10.53% 49
East London +1 12 £435 +35.94% 284
North London +1 2 £425 +193.10% 10
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 55 (3.10%) SharePoint
2 39 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (1.80%) Confluence
4 28 (1.58%) Apache Spark
5 17 (0.96%) CMS
6 14 (0.79%) Apache
7 9 (0.51%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2013
9 7 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
10 6 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.34%) Skype for Business
11 5 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.28%) govService
11 5 (0.28%) WordPress
12 4 (0.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 4 (0.23%) CICS
12 4 (0.23%) Luigi
12 4 (0.23%) nginx
13 3 (0.17%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 89 (5.01%) Microsoft Office
2 71 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.69%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.79%) Sketch
7 12 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.62%) Photoshop
9 9 (0.51%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
11 5 (0.28%) InVision
12 4 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
13 3 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
13 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
13 3 (0.17%) InDesign
13 3 (0.17%) Windchill
14 2 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
14 2 (0.11%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 21 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.90%) Endur
3 13 (0.73%) Shopify
4 11 (0.62%) Aligne
5 10 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (0.45%) Loan IQ
6 8 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.34%) ION MarketView
7 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.23%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.23%) SAP HCM
8 4 (0.23%) Siebel CRM
8 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.17%) Orchestrade
9 3 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 359 (20.20%) Azure
2 230 (12.94%) AWS
3 123 (6.92%) Microsoft 365
4 113 (6.36%) Power Platform
5 93 (5.23%) GCP
6 70 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
7 46 (2.59%) Entra ID
7 46 (2.59%) Serverless
8 38 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
9 34 (1.91%) GitHub
10 31 (1.74%) PowerApps
11 28 (1.58%) Amazon S3
12 27 (1.52%) SaaS
13 26 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
14 24 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
14 24 (1.35%) Power Automate
15 23 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
15 23 (1.29%) Figma
15 23 (1.29%) WhatsApp
16 18 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 54 (3.04%) Firewall
2 48 (2.70%) VPN
3 36 (2.03%) DNS
4 32 (1.80%) Wireless
5 28 (1.58%) Network Security
5 28 (1.58%) WAN
6 26 (1.46%) LAN
7 20 (1.13%) BGP
7 20 (1.13%) OSPF
8 18 (1.01%) Internet
9 17 (0.96%) TCP/IP
10 15 (0.84%) HTTP
10 15 (0.84%) SSH
11 14 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
12 13 (0.73%) DHCP
12 13 (0.73%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.62%) IPsec
13 11 (0.62%) MPLS
14 10 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
15 9 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (6.42%) SQL Server
2 93 (5.23%) Power BI
3 63 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (3.15%) Relational Database
5 49 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
6 38 (2.14%) MongoDB
7 36 (2.03%) Big Data
8 30 (1.69%) NoSQL
9 28 (1.58%) Tableau
10 20 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (1.01%) KDB
11 18 (1.01%) MySQL
11 18 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 17 (0.96%) RDBMS
13 15 (0.84%) Hadoop
13 15 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (0.73%) BigQuery
14 13 (0.73%) Data Lake
15 12 (0.68%) DB2
15 12 (0.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 115 (6.47%) Git
2 93 (5.23%) JIRA
3 48 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 28 (1.58%) GitLab
5 22 (1.24%) Selenium
6 17 (0.96%) Visual Studio
7 16 (0.90%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.84%) Maven
9 14 (0.79%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.68%) LoadRunner
11 11 (0.62%) JUnit
11 11 (0.62%) Subversion
12 10 (0.56%) Appium
13 9 (0.51%) Artifactory
14 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.45%) Postman
14 8 (0.45%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.34%) Gradle
15 6 (0.34%) WebDriver
15 6 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 1,021 (57.46%) Social Skills
2 795 (44.74%) Analytical Skills
3 519 (29.21%) Finance
4 166 (9.34%) Banking
5 119 (6.70%) Public Sector
6 111 (6.25%) Marketing
7 102 (5.74%) Presentation Skills
8 58 (3.26%) Investment Banking
9 55 (3.10%) Front Office
10 53 (2.98%) Retail
11 51 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
12 42 (2.36%) Telecoms
13 39 (2.19%) Legal
14 36 (2.03%) Manufacturing
15 33 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
16 29 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 25 (1.41%) Financial Institution
18 24 (1.35%) Law
19 21 (1.18%) Back Office
20 17 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 279 (15.70%) Developer
2 265 (14.91%) Analyst
3 158 (8.89%) Senior
4 137 (7.71%) Architect
5 110 (6.19%) Consultant
6 107 (6.02%) Lead
7 100 (5.63%) Business Analyst
8 82 (4.61%) Project Manager
9 50 (2.81%) Java Developer
10 46 (2.59%) Data Engineer
11 45 (2.53%) Data Analyst
12 41 (2.31%) DevOps Engineer
13 40 (2.25%) Network Engineer
13 40 (2.25%) Support Engineer
14 34 (1.91%) Software Engineer
15 33 (1.86%) Designer
16 32 (1.80%) Azure Engineer
17 31 (1.74%) IT Engineer
17 31 (1.74%) Solutions Architect
18 29 (1.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (4.78%) HTML
2 84 (4.73%) React
3 78 (4.39%) CSS
4 74 (4.16%) .NET
5 53 (2.98%) RESTful
6 50 (2.81%) REST
7 44 (2.48%) JSON
8 42 (2.36%) Kafka
9 38 (2.14%) Spring
10 36 (2.03%) Node.js
10 36 (2.03%) XML
11 30 (1.69%) Web Services
12 22 (1.24%) AngularJS
13 19 (1.07%) SOAP
14 18 (1.01%) .NET Core
15 17 (0.96%) ASP.NET
15 17 (0.96%) Spring Boot
16 16 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
17 15 (0.84%) .NET Framework
18 14 (0.79%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 91 (5.12%) Management Information System
2 85 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
3 73 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.38%) Algorithms
5 44 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 39 (2.19%) Data Centre
6 39 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
6 39 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 36 (2.03%) Data Structures
8 29 (1.63%) Derivative
9 27 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 26 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 23 (1.29%) Fixed Income
12 22 (1.24%) Cloud Native
12 22 (1.24%) Security Posture
13 21 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
14 20 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
15 18 (1.01%) Mobile App
16 16 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
17 15 (0.84%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 148 (8.33%) Windows
2 119 (6.70%) Linux
3 49 (2.76%) Unix
4 40 (2.25%) Windows 10
5 30 (1.69%) Android
6 29 (1.63%) Windows 7
6 29 (1.63%) Windows Server
7 18 (1.01%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.73%) Mac OS X
9 10 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (0.51%) VMS
11 8 (0.45%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.34%) Solaris
13 5 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (0.28%) Windows 8
13 5 (0.28%) zOS
14 3 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
15 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (29.21%) Agile
2 249 (14.01%) Computer Science
3 239 (13.45%) Project Management
4 236 (13.28%) DevOps
5 178 (10.02%) Analytics
6 170 (9.57%) Migration
7 168 (9.45%) Stakeholder Management
8 165 (9.29%) CI/CD
9 162 (9.12%) Decision-Making
10 145 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
11 131 (7.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 131 (7.37%) Data Modelling
12 125 (7.03%) Scrum
13 115 (6.47%) Customer Service
14 110 (6.19%) Data Analysis
15 109 (6.13%) Risk Management
16 107 (6.02%) Mentoring
17 104 (5.85%) Change Management
18 99 (5.57%) SDLC
19 97 (5.46%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 293 (16.49%) SQL
2 288 (16.21%) Python
3 177 (9.96%) Java
4 139 (7.82%) JavaScript
5 109 (6.13%) C#
6 75 (4.22%) PowerShell
7 48 (2.70%) TypeScript
8 38 (2.14%) Scala
9 37 (2.08%) C++
10 34 (1.91%) Bash
11 31 (1.74%) T-SQL
12 29 (1.63%) Go
12 29 (1.63%) Shell Script
13 27 (1.52%) PL/SQL
14 18 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 15 (0.84%) Perl
16 14 (0.79%) Bicep
16 14 (0.79%) R
17 10 (0.56%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 385 (21.67%) Degree
2 193 (10.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 172 (9.68%) Security Cleared
4 127 (7.15%) SC Cleared
5 71 (4.00%) Master's Degree
6 38 (2.14%) CISSP
7 34 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
8 30 (1.69%) CISM
9 29 (1.63%) PMP
10 27 (1.52%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.52%) PMI Certification
11 22 (1.24%) CCNP
11 22 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.07%) AWS Certification
12 19 (1.07%) Azure Certification
13 16 (0.90%) ISTQB
14 15 (0.84%) DBS Check
14 15 (0.84%) PhD
14 15 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 14 (0.79%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.74%) QA
2 92 (5.18%) Data Quality
3 44 (2.48%) SLA
4 39 (2.19%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.41%) NIST
6 22 (1.24%) GDPR
6 22 (1.24%) PMO
7 18 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.39%) NCSC
9 7 (0.39%) WCAG
10 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.34%) Dodd-Frank
11 5 (0.28%) GRC
11 5 (0.28%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.28%) ISO 31000
11 5 (0.28%) MiFID
12 4 (0.23%) COBIT
12 4 (0.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 102 (5.74%) Active Directory
2 95 (5.35%) Docker
3 35 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.01%) Firmware
5 13 (0.73%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 9 (0.51%) KVM
6 9 (0.51%) vSphere
7 8 (0.45%) HDFS
8 5 (0.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 5 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.23%) NFS
9 4 (0.23%) vCloud
9 4 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.11%) XenApp
12 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.056%) RACF
Systems Management
1 104 (5.85%) Kubernetes
2 80 (4.50%) Terraform
3 44 (2.48%) Ansible
4 32 (1.80%) SCCM
5 26 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (1.35%) Grafana
7 21 (1.18%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.90%) Puppet
9 12 (0.68%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.56%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.51%) Consul
12 7 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (0.28%) Hadoop YARN
13 5 (0.28%) Opsgenie
13 5 (0.28%) QRadar
13 5 (0.28%) VxRail
14 4 (0.23%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 352 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 123 (6.92%) Oracle
3 111 (6.25%) SAP
4 63 (3.55%) Google
5 58 (3.26%) ServiceNow
6 47 (2.64%) Adobe
6 47 (2.64%) Cisco
7 46 (2.59%) Salesforce
8 45 (2.53%) VMware
9 38 (2.14%) Databricks
10 26 (1.46%) Apple
10 26 (1.46%) Dell
10 26 (1.46%) IBM
11 22 (1.24%) Splunk
12 17 (0.96%) Citrix
12 17 (0.96%) Juniper
13 15 (0.84%) Palo Alto
13 15 (0.84%) Sitecore
14 14 (0.79%) F5
14 14 (0.79%) Fortinet